Mesozoic | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 New evidence on the sizes of pterosaurs https://boneblogger.com/new-evidence-on-the-sizes-of-pterosaurs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-evidence-on-the-sizes-of-pterosaurs Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:24:52 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1516 The flying reptiles, pterosaurs, were an amazing successful group of prehistoric animals. They ranged from the Late Triassic through the end of the Cretaceous periods, a span of time of about 156 million years. That is over 2 times longer than the time since dinosaurs became extinct, and mammals have dominated the terrestrial landscape. Pterosaurs […]

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]]> Bonnerichthys https://boneblogger.com/bonnerichthys/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bonnerichthys Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:30:30 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=114 In modern oceans, the very largest organisms specialize in filter feeding, or living on the very small plankton in the water. (Read more about the filter feeding niche). Up until now, it has appeared to researcher that during the Age of Dinosaurs, when the oceans were dominated by large, toothy reptiles, there were no marine […]

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]]> The large consume the small https://boneblogger.com/the-large-consume-the-small/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-large-consume-the-small Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:16:38 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=74 It is an interesting paradox of the natural world that some of the largest species alive survive by eating some of the smallest species. Consider the largest animal ever known to have existed. No, it is not a dinosaur, but an animal alive today, the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus. This behemoth can grow to over […]

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